Episode 1: Ian talks about Nymphomaniac, TV show finales, Entertainment Weekly layoffs and much more…
Nymphomaniac, TV Show Finales, Entertainment Weekly Layoffs
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Monthly Archives: April 2014
Movie Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
A man and a woman as partners? In a movie? Do you think there’ll be sexual tension between them? Image via Business Insider
The differences between Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the latest Captain America installment, shows how much the Marvel Universe has changed and expanded in just three years.
The Winter Solider happens to combine both the worlds of Captain America and The Avengers: half of it is a promotion for a bunch of Marvel stories that I have little interest in, and the other half is a Captain America movie. Leave it to Disney to replace traditional product placement with promotion of their own products.
Hey Entertainment Weekly, I Have a Few Words for You…
Because movies were bad in other times, too. Image via EW
Entertainment Weekly is not dead yet, but looks to be slowly marching itself to its own grave.
Yesterday, Entertainment Weekly announced that it would be laying off veteran film critic Owen Gleiberman, who has been around since the magazine’s inception. This comes a year after their other longtime film critic, Lisa Schwarzbaum left, and just weeks after the publication laid off other prominent staff members, and announced a complete remodeling of their website, which would now allow for community posting.
In short, this entails that the site will now be like BuzzFeed, in that anybody can post on it. These community posters will be paid in “prestige,” instead of, you know, money.
All of this news is dangerous for anybody who actually plans to make a living writing about film, television, music, and books. Time to pull out our sharpest hyperbolic knives!
Movie Review: Bad Words
Michael Bluth is threatening me! Image via Apple Trailers
What can I say? I have a soft spot for adults cursing at little kids, and those kids cursing right back at them.
Bad Words is the story of Guy Trilby (Jason Bateman), a 40-year-old loser who uses a loophole to compete in a national spelling bee. Guy Trilby is about as unlikable a person as possible. He has no ambition, curses to no end, and is mean to both women and children alike. But Jason Bateman is such an awesome dude in general that he almost dares you to like Trilby.